Oct 17, 2005

Inside Higher Ed

by  Scott Jaschik

 President of Saint Louis University used material for his opening homily from one last year by president of University of San Francisco.

http://insidehighered.com/news/2005/10/17/slu

Aug 3, 2004

Arizona Daily Star

by J. Sterba and
S. Simonson

“Gwen Kane knew her student's freshman English paper was fake when she found it selling on the Internet for $8.95 per page. “

Spring 2004

Library Philosophy and Practice Vol. 6, No. 2

by Margaret Burke

“This paper will explore the plagiarism dilemma from a librarian's vantage point, and will outline the strong support that has been offered to teaching faculty with plagiarism problems by the Joan and Donald E. Axinn Library of Hofstra University.”

Nov 13, 2003

B.B.C. News

by S. Adenekan

"For Anna, 22, a final year student in south-east England, internet plagiarism is a natural part
of undergraduate life."

The New York Times

by J. Steinberg

"The United States Naval Academy yesterday demoted a history professor whose book on
the creation of the atomic bomb contained dozens of unaccredited passages identical or
nearly identical to those in the works of at least four other authors."

The Digital Collegian - Penn State

by J. R. Cooke

"A change in the way Penn State handles cheating and plagiarism has resulted in a sharply higher number of reported cases, university officials said."

Jan 13, 2003

The Chronicle Online - Duke University

by A. Garinger

"Despite increased University efforts to educate undergraduates on how to avoid plagiarism
and correctly cite sources, academic dishonesty case numbers increased dramatically at the
end of the fall semester."

Jan 08, 2003

Students Facing Computer Test for Plagiarized Work

"British students are facing a new test following the introduction of a national computer
system that identifies copied work."

Nov 20, 2002

The Chronicle of Higher Education

Up to 14% of Australian University Students May Be Plagiarizing from Web, Study Suggests

by A. Foster

"Up to 14 percent of Australian university students may be pirating material off the Internet
for their essays, according to a study commissioned by six Australian universities."

The Chronicle of Higher Education

by A. Foster

Apr 5, 2002

CNN.com

Survey: Many Students Say Cheating's OK

by K. Slobogin

"A national survey by Rutgers' Management Education Center of 4,500 high school students found that 75 percent of them engage in serious cheating."

http://www.cnn.com/2002/fyi/teachers.ednews/04/05/highschool.cheating/index.html

The Chronicle of Higher Education

Anti-Plagiarism Experts Raise Questions about Services with Links to Sites Selling Papers

by J. Young

“Two online services that help professors check student papers for plagiarism -- PlagiServe.com and EduTie.com -- appear to have ties to Web sites that sell term papers to students. That has some professors worried that the two services might be secretly selling the very papers that they claim to check.”

http://chronicle.com/free/2002/03/2002031201t.htm

Feb 1, 2002

The Chronicle of Higher Education

by A. Kellogg

"A new study by two professors at the Rochester Institute of Technology concludes that
online plagiarism is not nearly as widespread as has frequently been suggested."

Jan 31, 2002

CNN.com

Plagiarism Allegations Disturb Teachers

Professors and students discuss recent plagiarism cases, including the famous case of
historian Stephen Ambrose.

http://www.cnn.com/2002/fyi/teachers.ednews/01/31/plagiarism.fallout.ap/

Jan 29, 2002

SanFranciscoGate.com

Copycats Have High-Tech foe: Software Programs Can Spot Plagiarism

by E. Eakin,

This article discusses the case of "Stephen B. Oates, a historian at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and the author of a well-regarded 1977 biography of Abraham Lincoln, with plagiarism."

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2002/01/29/DD80192.DTL

Washington Post

Technology Exposes Cheating at U-Va.

by A. Argetsinger

"A decade ago, it would have been hard for Lou Bloomfield to sniff out plagiarism in a class
that draws as many as 500 students a semester. Last month, though, he designed a simple computer program to look for any common phrases and set it loose on his electronic database
of 1,500 term papers. His heart sank as his computer churned out one match after another." Prof. Bloomfield created the WCopyfind, a free software to detect matching words and phrases in different documents.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A638-
2001May8&notFound=true

The New York Times

Brilliant or Plagiarized? Colleges Use Sites to Expose Cheaters

by V. Kopytoff

Professors and developers of anti-plagiarism software share their views of this new tool in the academic environment.

Salon.com

by A. Dehnart

This article discusses the need for a professor not to rely on the judgment of anti-plagiarism software, and carefully check the results of the analysis provided by these tools.

EDUCATION WEEK on the WEB

Don't Blame the Internet for Plagiarism

by M. Freedman

"The real culprits may be unskilled, indifferent educators."

Student Plagiarism in an Online World

by J. Ryan

"Plagiarism is alive and well on campuses and in cyberspace. But educators should take
some solace in the fact that while the Internet is a useful resource for plagiarists, it is also
an excellent tool to use against them."